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If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

DEAR JOAN: My feeders have been overwhelmed with little brown and yellow birds, about the size of finches. What kind of birds are these? Bill J. Concord DEAR BILL: Those are pine siskins, a type of ...

Catch the movement of a bird in a woodland canopy, a fallow field or at the summer feeder and chances are good that its identity can be told by the presence of yellow in its dress — either overall or ...

My grandmother reveled at the sight of bright yellow birds with black caps that attended the zinnias in her garden each summer. Wild canaries, she called them. What she didn’t know is that the only ...

If you put out a couple feeders and fill them with fresh seeds anywhere in Pennsylvania, you'll probably encounter many of the same common bird species as everyone else with a couple feeders in their ...

Winter finches are falling prey to salmonella passed through bird feeders in Oregon. The Portland Audubon Society has seen a recent rise in salmonella symptoms in birds, particularly the pine siskin, ...